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'ne mæg weorþan wis' - A common sentiment, also expressed in the Maxims where one must experience much (feala gebideð) before one becomes the wisest of the ancients (gamol snoterost).
The scribe wrote wearþan; M-R, with several other editors, emend to weorþan. The manuscript spelling may be a scribal error, or may indicate that the poem was originally written in the Northumbrian dialect, in which the diphthongs /ea/ and /eo/ are often conflated (Campbell (1959), §278).